Inca Terrace System

Far away in the Andes Mountains the Inca lived. It was necessary for the Incas to adapt to the mountains. If they did not adapt to the climate they would not have survived. Their technology was very good, they had to adapt to the powerful Andes Mountains. They had several ideas to adapt to the mountains; they had an excellent terrace system (Donn) and they also had irrigation system. Since their empire was huge and that they lived in the mountains they had roads around the Empire. In every single thing the Inca had they also had a purpose. The Incas was one the most powerful empire in South America.
To adapt to the mountains was very necessary for the Incas. Their agriculture was excellent; they used the skill of terrace (Donn). On the mountains sides the Incas used terrace to make food. It was an easy way because; they only had to carve out the mountains. To help the harvest grow they had an irrigation system around the terraces. It was channels under the terraces which helped the harvest to grow. The best season was the harvest season, at that point in …show more content…
The Incas were not used to people, other than themselves. And when the Spanish came, new diseases were introduced. And that was not a good thing. In Europe it was a lot of diseases that was common for them, but when somebody on the ship was sick and they came to the Inca Empire, the disease was spread to the Inca civilization. Not only did the Spanish bring diseases with them but they also had better weapons than the Incas so they also killed people. The Incas failed to evolve to the Europeans, which was some of the reasons of failure among the Inca Empire. Diseases were not the only bad thing, but when the Sapa Inca and his sons died of smallpox, a Civil War started to see who was going to be the next ruler (Cartwright). And when the Spanish came to the Inca Empire it was easy to destroy an